Whether or not ABC realizes its mistake in cancelling Station 19 and reverses its facepalm-worthy decision, the second offshoot of Grey’s Anatomy could still live on — no intubation tube or EKG paddles needed, even. All that the network would have to do is listen to the show’s brokenhearted fans and greenlight a spinoff of the spinoff.
Maybe even two.
As luck would have it, Peter Paige and Zoanne Clack, the showrunners whose superlative first season at the helm turned out to be the first-responders drama’s last, used the series’ finale to set up a number of tantalizing possible premises. Via the firefighters’ visions of their futures, we got a glimpse of what each of them hoped was coming down the pike. (Click here to read the full recap and see what the EPs had in mind.)
Though Paige hastened to tell TVLine that these very personal “previews” weren’t necessarily “written in stone,” we wouldn’t be mad if they were at least typed into scripts. Some of them were so good that they played less like “to be continued” sneak peeks than “must be continued” ones.
Keep scrolling to see how Paige and Clack’s ideas (and ours) might lend themselves to new iterations of Station 19, then hit the comments to pitch your spinoff concepts.
It wasn’t Vic’s imagination. At the end of the finale, Travis showed up at the airport ready to move to Washington, DC, with her. Together, they would take Crisis One national and keep intact what was arguably primetime’s closest friendship. Would any Station 19 fan not be beyond happy, eager, to follow them on their journey?
When Station 19 wrapped, the marrieds were well on their way to adopting Liam, Carina was expecting her and Maya’s baby, and Maya was open to getting pregnant herself. But how would the busy doctor and future captain balance their demanding jobs with their expanding family? Regardless of the answer, we’d be delighted to tune in and find out.
The showrunners regretted that the finale didn’t leave room for a flash-forward in which Gibson was stepping up as the father figure that he’d wished he had growing up. They could still play out that scenario, however, in a spinoff that would also reveal whether Andy’s vision of a reunion with her old flame ever really came to pass.
C’mon, these two have always had “power couple” written all over them. And an offshoot that follows her ascension to mayor and his efforts to help military veterans become firefighters would allow them to really lean into their potential while we’d get to continue savoring the chemistry that was always threatening to fry our TVs!
Per our sister site Deadline, Jason George is already in talks to bring his character back to Grey’s Anatomy to finish his surgical residency. But what if there was no room at the inn? What if with one budget cut after another, it just couldn’t happen? Then we might be looking at a spinoff in which Bailey’s husband has to resist temptation while scrubbing in away from Seattle.
Give me the Marina spinoff! At this point, it’s actually a need.
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The chemistry between Stefania and Danielle is so palpable, that networks or streamers would be dumb to let that go to waste.
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They could make it anything from drama to comedy or something in between.
And because the dream sequences were just that, a dream, there aren’t a lot of limitations regarding the story telling.
If they’d choose the drama route there could even be a miscarriage, so that there’d only be one child to handle. (Please don’t come at me. I just know, that working with babys isn’t easy and hard on productions – that’s the only reason I wrote that. Even though I just know, that Stefania would act the **** out of that story.)
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Let Carina actually do an extra qualification, that would allow her field work – together with her wife.
Or let her open up her own practice, that she was talking about in season 6.
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There aren’t only a lot of possibilities for stories to tell, but also a dire need for wlw representation on TV. And Stefania and Danielle did that wonderfully, even if directors and editors did not (IYKYK).
Travis and Vic: Crisis One for the win! PLEASE TV Gods, PLEASE???
I truly don’t want Ben back on Grey’s in a series regular capacity. His screen time on Grey’s right now is perfect, no need to see more of him, and Grey’s is too crowded as is.
Problem is, the most interesting character was Herrera, but how do you get a spinoff since 19 is clearly her future?
Crisis One would be watchable – the rest not so much – though they could send some of them to Greys.
How could you possibly think it was OK to give Station 19 the boot!!!
YES PLEASE for the MARINA spinoff! I wish Hulu would swoop in for this. I don’t think there would be an issue with ratings and I would guess many would purchase a subscription to view!
Jack! I would watch each and every episode of him running a home for Foster kids! Yowza!!
Forget station 19 it became way to tacky. bring back NCIS Hawaii and so help me Todd
They’re not even on the same network…
I wish Station 19 hadn’t gotten canceled. I would absolutely pay for a subscription to ANY streaming service if they gave us a Maya & Carina spinoff!!!!
I am still in shock that the show got canceled, why do they always cancel the good shows? They rescue 9-1-1 from Fox after it didn’t get picked up, bring it over to ABC and put it in Station 19’s time slot and bump it to 9:00 following Grey’s and they then renew 9-1-1 for another second, WTF, didn’t and doesn’t make sense. I truly hope that some network or streaming service revitalizes Station 19 because I would definitely watch, it could pick up where it left off, being that it was just a dream sequence for them and what the future held for them ! BRING BACK STATION 19!
I know I’m in the minority, but I’m actually perfectly content with the show ending. I’d rather see a show go out on a phenomenal final season than go on and run itself into the ground the way basically every other Shondaland show has. Most of these concepts don’t sound like they’d have more than 8 good episodes in them before they devolved into tired drama.
Marina? Oh no thank you! Worst part of the final season was those two and their baby, fast forwarded all of their scenes.
Would love to see crisis ones journey. Also Gibson and a foster home. I think ben is needed back in greys anatomy. Not sure the first years have the depth the original first years did.
These idea might be good for a brand new shows.
I don’t understand the obsession with this show. It had a good run but wasn’t that great. The change of showrunners disconnected the first two season from the rest and rewriting charchters’ history. The favouritism of Marina maybe even using them to attract more audience at the expand of the original lead and sidelining another completly was disgusting.
And if we comparing greys spinoff Praivte Practice was way better and yet it wasn’t forced on by unnecessary crossovers or transferring his characters to grey which would be more logical than 19.
I would live to see a Station19 spinoff because there is so much further they can go and a lot of story to tell. Even a Marina spinoff would be great
All great ideas!!
How about a spinoff with ALL of their stories? I think that would be very interesting. All of us Station 19 fans would definitely watch it.
Would be awesome if we could get Station 19 saved in its entirety but 100% down for for that Marina spinoff